Improved stair-rod fastening



- said -levers-,and their n. A. Goonns, or rIIILAnnLriII-A, rnNNsYLvAnIA-`- MPaovED STAIRS-Proof FASTSNIN'G.

. Specification forming part of Letters Patent'No. 40,339,

To all whom, it mag/concern.-

' Be it known vthat I, adelphia,` Pennsylvani Improved Fastener for do hereby clear, and exact erence being had ings, and to the thereon.

E'. A. Goonns, of Phil- I a, have invented an StainRods; and I declare the following to lbe a full, description ofthe same, ret'- to the accompanying drawletters of reference vmarked My invention consists of twolevers, each having two cam-like p rojections constructed and applied to the fasteningof arod for confining a narrow carpetl to the step of a stair,

substantially as described hereinafter; and my invention further-consists of fasteners for confining a broad 'carpe the said fastener being tially as described here t to the step-ot' a stair,.

a combination Vof thel cam-like projections with -certa'in brackets applied to thestairs, substan-Av in after.

The object of my invention .is yto Aproduce cheap, simple, and a-id of which stair-rods durable fasteners, by the can be`secnred with facility to and readily removed from the stain.

In order to .enable ot my invention, I `will no hers to make and use w proceed to describe the manner ot( constructing and applying the same;

On-reftlfence to the ings, whidh forni a accompanying drawpart of this specification,

Figure 1 isa longitudinal section of -a stairrod with my improved .fastener Fig. 2, a

transverse sectionA of Fig., 1, illustrating the relative position of fastener and rod prior to the latter being secured Fig. 3, a transverse section on 'the line 1 tudinal section of a tion of my improved 6, "a sectithial'plan sents the stair-rod, -wh

Fig. 1; Fig. 4, alongistair-rodwith a modica-v fastener; Fig. 5, atransverse section on the lin on the line 5 6,Fig. 2.

ich consists, as usual; of a metal plate bent to the.

. in the transverse sections,

.. that there may-be two longitudinal grooves,

e 3 4, Fig. 2; and Fig.

form illustrated Figs. 2 and .3, so

d d, in theinsideof therOd.

vby 'means of adsuitable screw or bolt, e, to the vertical portion of-the step, which is represented by. the line C, Fig. 3, and each lever is provided lwith two having rounded ends. 'v

cain

llike projections, c c,

.dined october 2o, Issa.I

When the stair-redhas to be secured to the step, the two levers are, in thers't instance, elevated to the positionsl shown by'red lines, Fig. 1, after which the rod .is placed directly against the step of the stair in front of the carpet, when the two cam-like .projections of the levers will occupy the positions within the rod seen in Fig. 2, the levers themselves bearing against the step; After this the levers are depressed to the position shown by the black lines, Fig. ll, thereby causing the cam-likeprojectionsc c tobecome jammed, one against the inside of the upper longitudinal groove, olf-of the stair-rod, and the other against` the inside` of the lower longitudinal groove ofthe rod,.as seen in Fig. 3. The rod is lthus eiiectually. secured.

It shouldbe understood that the above-deseribedstair-rod fasteners are used when the .carpet is narrower than the stairs, the width ofthestairs being in Fig. 1 represented by the two black lines D- and D,`and the width of the carpet by the two red lines w w.,

When the` carpet has tobe of thersame Width or nearly thesame-width as the stairs, I adoptthe moditied'fastener represented .by Figs. 4,5, and 6, the levers B andB, with pro'- jections c c, similar to-those above described, being used in this modification but instead of being hung step, as in the former case, theyareconnected each :to a bracket, E, .onebracket beingsecured toone side, D, ofthe stair'andthe other to the opposite side, D', in the position bestobserved in the sectional plan view, Figli, so

that the carpet may take its place betweenl the bracket and the frontj() of the step. f

lhe method of -securinghthe rod in'this modification of my fastener by the -levers B and B and their cam-like 'projectionsneeds no furthcr description. l It will be obscrvedzthat eaclLof ,the levers is provided at the outside end in g the levers from being depressed beyond a given point and of aii'ording a projection, by Two bentievers, B and B', are hung, eachmeans ot' which .thelevers. canybereadily raised when Athe stair-rod has -to be removed.

The ad-vantagesof, my

directlyto the frontv ofthe' withua-lip, gl, i' `which serves the twofold purposelof preventimproved fasteners inetal v secondly., they -renot-exposed .toyie'w 'When/the rods are -in their places, and are therefore not liable to be ytair'xpered-with by lchildren; thirdly, they .afford greater facilities for readily removing 'amd replaeing'the rods than'ordinary fasteners, into which the vrodsheve to be pushed endwise; a-nd5 fourthly, they confine the rods .more'seeurely` than fast- I epingsof the-ordinary construction. i I elaimesymyinventionA and' ,desire teseeure' by Letters Ptent- 1. The levers Bend B', `With their eem-like 'projeetions c 0,` construct-ed and applied to the l fastening .of stair-rods, substantially s and -Afor the purpose described. 2. In combination with the said-levers B and .B" and their cam-likeprojeetions o c, the' brackets E applied to the stairs, substantially as described, fortbe purpose'specied.

In testimony. whereof I' have signed my neme to this vspecification in the presence of two-subscribing witnesses. v E, A. GOODES.

Witnesses:

' HENRY-Howsoiv,

U.. HQWSON. 

